Monthly Archives: April 2006

Toledo Blade – Another premium increase for Ohio employers indicates that the state Bureau of Workers’ Compensation continues to stumble while trying to right itself in the wakeof the Coingate scandal.This is not good news for business and industry, which […]

San Antonio Express News – More institutions worldwide shifted money to hedge funds last year, with 44 percent allocating at least a tenth of their assets to the investment pools, State Street Corp.said in a survey. Most institutions, such as […]

Many investors would say that venture capital trusts are lower risk than hedge funds, but they would be wrong. A fund of hedge funds, run by an experienced fund manger who knows how to balance levelsof risk, can be far […]

Finance Asia – Morgan Stanley’s survey of institutional investors finds they are pickier about hedge fund managers – and keener on Asia and Japan strategies. Growing up is never easy. A Morgan Stanley survey of global hedge fund trends, based […]

April 3 (Bloomberg) — Werner Seifert, who quit as chief executive officer of Deutsche Boerse AG less than a year ago, compares the investors who pushed for his departure to a plague of locusts in a book published today. Seifert […]

No one in the hedge fund community would risk saying it publicly, but some hedge fund money managers are claiming the Securities and Exchange Commission is on a vendetta against the $1.2 trillion industry. In the past few weeks, the […]

The Dallas Morning News –  Hedge fund investors aren’t your typical investors. In fact, you need to qualify as an “accredited investor” before you’re able to invest in many funds of hedge funds – investment companies that invest in hedge […]

TOKYO/HONG KONG (Reuters) – Private equity firms struggling to find reasonably priced assets in Japan are increasingly settling for smaller stakes in companies — pitting them against souped-up hedge funds in competition for deals. While buyout funds are usually loath […]